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Turns out that the SPLC was a Zionist Jewish-Evangelical Christian front group from the git go. One of the two SPLC Founders (Morris Seligman Dees was an Israel First fan-boy Evangelical [i.e. racist war mongering anti-Christ fake ‘Christian’]) and the other founder (Joseph J. Levin Jr.) was just a straight up Mossad asset.
This is right up there with Erica Kirk being a Rothschild. You couldn’t make this shit up, and why would you need to? The raw truth is as crazy-evil as any crazy-evil imagination could invent.
Notice that there were no Brand Names, hierarchies or “fine print” in those instructions. Just humbly pray, seek “God’s face”, and clean up your act.
I haven’t seen or read any evidence that God cares how we accomplish a world without war and other forms of forced involuntary violence to control people. I think He just wants it done.
He said so very explicitly in that Bible quote DrD posted this morning, the key portions of which instructs like a literal checklist 1) humble yourself , 2) pray, 3) seek God’s face and lastly #4) turn from your wicked ways. I don’t see how He could have said it any clearer. He said follow those steps and he would forgive your mistakes and reward you with His eternal love and sanctuary.
That’s a sweet deal. You should take it.
The correct response to the invitation to wage war is to simply not take up the offer. Simply don’t do it. Don’t wage war. At all. Don’t use force and violence to make other people not do it (violent force) to others or to you and your loved ones.
I resolve to begin doing that, starting right now. I am not doing war and I aim to keep it that way, regardless of danger. I am not only not doing it. I don’t even want to do it. I do not want to use force and violence to make someone else do anything against their will.
I am not wanting to wage war to make other people stop doing it. I will ask them, and tell them in no uncertain terms (!!!) how bad enforced control is and to just stop. Stop trying to involuntarily control people using force, violence and lies.
It doesn’t work. It always and only makes everything worse, not better. Not even for the guy who does it!
@DrD
“If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
Deserves being said again.
And what, pray thee, is the name of God and how does one call Him by it?
Well, that is a very, very, very, very good question and I recommend that every person seek to answer it.
Here is what the incomparably greatest poet of all time had to say about it. That person was named Rumi, who was a 13th Century Sufi Persian poet known to all the world at that time and loved by all. I find that to be remarkably fitting in this case, don’t you think? That the man who best answered the question of who is the Christian God would turn out to be an Iranian Muslim radical from nearly a thousand years ago. https://youtu.be/eV5aH1D6X6E?si=d6QM9J4HH1ra-e9D
Anyone or any nation claiming to be Christian and at the same time promoting war and the murder of innocents is at best a sinful fool tottering on the brink of the Hell of their own making. They should reform themselves and beg forgiveness with every fiber of their being.
@JustSomeRandomer
Our host, Mr Meijer seems to be engaged in similar mental gymnastics on the topic of the Iran conflict, which really puzzles me.
Research the ethnic origins of the surname Meijer and you will become less puzzled. We all exist in a milieu of one kind or another (and often of many kinds mixed together), and Ilargi’s milieu has a disproportionate number of very corrupted data sources in it (Nazis, Jews, Kazarian’s, European Royals, various so-called ‘Secret Societies’ and religions). It’s a testimony to Raul’s basically wonderful character that he has even survived. RIM is like a canary in the coal mine who by some inexplicable miracle continues to breath and chirp his warnings long after the coal gas has killed everyone else in the mine.
He deserves the highest medal of valor the world could offer, and yet barely gets the respect afforded to Rodney Dangerfield. Be kind. And grateful.
check to see if the moving needle is completely wrapped around the far post!
Dang! That’s exactly what it did. Must have run into a real whopper.
In deciphering the news of late I am desperately curious and needful of knowing “who’s lying, who’s lying more, and who’s lying the most” [Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by David Simon, 1991], but unfortunately my Lie-O-Meter just made a funny noise, emitted a thin whisp of smoke and went dead.
Looks like I may have to wait until the end myself before finding out. It better be good or I’ll be very disappointed.
@DrD
You’re looking at too narrow a scope:
The width of my scope includes everything inside the orbit of the moon. I see a shrinking Empire that is shrinking faster and faster as it doubles down on all previous down-doublings. Every time America doubles the bet it shrinks by half. Run the numbers for yourself. Do you see us thriving or struggling? Do you see America’s competitors, adversaries and former vassals becoming more timid, subservient, and aligned to America’s “needs”, or are they increasingly disgagreeable, defiant and bold?
The Empire fails to notice (as Empires tend to do) that the evils which it committed to become an Empire in the first place (colonialist theft, murder and domination) are the same evil that now accelerate demise. Ah, well. Pretend to be surprised by the inevitable.
what damage did America take IN AMERICA?
Are you kidding me? Are you brave and foolish enough to have walked around in an American city in the past couple of decades? Or driven through the ghost towns of the American “Heartland” where thrift stores, empty storefronts, dilapidated churches and meth labs exist in roughly equal proportion?
Again, we used 10% of our forces in the war so far. So let’s say they damaged ALL that, PLUS some bases and radars we’re not counting. So? Do you see the problem? IF ALL America was ONLY the assets in the Middle East, then yeah, we got pounded. But we’re barely there. 99% of America is in Cleveland and Kansas City, NOT at a 300 man base in the Iraqi desert
It’s called a “War of Attrition”, and we are losing so fast that in the span of a single generation we can all see (those who care to look, at least) that the big white City on the Hill is now a slum on the mud flats.
I dunno, maybe you’re right. Maybe doubling down yet again is the best course of action after all. Speed things up. Get it over with faster. If pretending to be the good guys gets that done, then have at it. There’s a clearance sale on white hats down at the Dollar General, if you’ve got the balls and the fire-power to drive into that part of town.
@DrD
So we bombed them into the Stone age, took almost no damage, and WE are supposed to surrender?
Your idea that we took almost no damage could not be further from the truth.
I have personal knowledge to the contrary that would be extremely dangerous to convey without putting about a dozen people who are important to me in significant danger, and you would just doubt it anyway because you are so heavily invested in the belief that the government and system you live for has not betrayed your trust to a level that exceeds your mental and emotional capacity to fathom. I am simply not going to risk them in order to help you.
One side is telling you the truth that might enable you to salvage some portion of your world, and the other side is telling you lies that are likely to cost you everything that you value. You’re just going to have to figure out for yourself which side is which, and a good way to do that is to DOUBT both sides equally as a starting point. Presently you’re not doing that at all and seem to have made your mind up. So be it. The choice is yours, after all.
For a guy who got almost famous writing about drug addled rock stars for Rolling Stone (and the atrocities of suburban architecture), Jimmy the Kid Killer Kunstler sure knows WAY too much (or thinks he does!) about the inner workings of the Iranian government.
And what he claims to know is just outright malarky, biased propaganda and genocidal bullshit. Hey Jimmy boy, when you say “Our country” which country are you speaking of? Sure doesn’t look like America to me.
Tell me that guy ain’t Mossad.
Whatever they’re paying him, it’s too much.
He should go back to his weed and the Rolling Stone. They’re more his kind of people, if you catch my drift.
@DrD
DBS: I’m not a pragmatist or even a Utilitarian at all. I’m only trying to figure out what’s going on. Running around in circles, hitting ourselves in the head with “Orange Man” is not working. It’s failed every day for 10 years, perhaps we can try another approach. This is merely Step One. Step Two would be acting on it, and Step Three, morally.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that “…trying to figure out what’s going on” is a good first step (and should be #1 on anyone’s do-list, in my opinion), but am of the strong opinion that your proposed steps # 2 and #3 are in reversed order. One should always always always figure out what the right thing is before doing it.
As for the utter chaos that seems to fill the “information sphere” of knowing who’s lying, who’s lying more and who’s lying the most I can only sympathize and offer the advice that has always served me well.
Question everything and doubt the answers that come back. Doubt can be your friend. It leads to questioning everything (including the doubt itself!) which then produces more answers, and more doubt, and eventually reveals patterns and consistencies within what initially looked like total chaos and now is revealed as not total.
It’s a start.
There may well be no achievable ending, but at least you’ll be headed in the right direction and if there is anything in all of it that I do know for certain it is that going in the wrong direction is not going to get you to anywhere you really want to go.
P.S. :
You’re going to have to search earlier than Donald J Chump to find much useful atall. A lot earlier. And by that word I mean to say a LOT earlier. Count by centuries, not years, and at every single step ask of every alleged answer, “Oh! Is that so?”, and then question further to remove as much doubt as can be.@DrD
These [the 4 points as you listed them]are all very different things, and saying Germany can, will, why, and what will happen is not an approval, anymore than I approve or disapprove of Genghis Khan or King Edward. They are irrelevant to me as salt because the MORAL standard has no bearing on what anyone will do (clearly) nor is anyone asking me (clearl y) nor if I spend my time focused on that instead will it make any difference at all (clearly).
Ahh! The morality of pragmatism. You’re a pragmatist. That’s distinctly and almost admirably higher than outright amorality, but still well shy of the safer ground of standing up for the good and opposing the bad, on principle alone.
I think we can work with pragmatism as a start point.
In which case let me pose the cardinal rule of pragmatic self-interest, which is: Does a particular tactically executed strategy work?
If yes, then rinse and repeat. If not then change the fucking strategy before it makes the situation even worse and get’s one seriously killed or something just as unpleasant, and even less workable.
The Empire’s strategy of doubling down on the evil is not pragmatic. The Empire is losing ground, treasure and friends faster than a rattlesnake ina buffalo stampede. Time to re-think the genocidally rapacious colonialism strategy, maybe, while we’ve still got a home to scuttle back to and defend. Bad time to double down the dirty deeds. Good time to bargain in good faith instead of the old S.O.P. of betraying suckers because not only have the suckers wised up, they’ve ganged up, and are literally kicking our ass.
Adm. Daryl Caudle told reporters during a media roundtable at Sea-Air-Space 2026 in Maryland that food quantity and quality were meeting Navy standards.
The worst of our fears have been realized. The lives of those sailors are in dire jeopardy.
Rejecting Christianity because Evangelicals are deeply racist genocidal killers and the Vatican organizes and protects pedophiles is not a case of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. (everybody gut level understands that you shouldn’t throw out the baby when disposing of dirty bathwater.)
The plan all along, the whole idea in the first place, was to get rid of the baby.
The bathwater is just cover.
Trump doesn’t just believe himself to be bigger than Jesus, his hireling IDF good squad is taking out the competition to make sure that he stays that way.
https://x.com/ytirawi/status/2045851392527458672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
The term “unintended consequences” is an unfortunate misnomer. And an outright lie right there on the face of it. To assign the reason for an event to “unintended consequence” is as absurd as claiming, in writing, that an effect did not have a cause. It just happened, that’s all?
Of course the consequence was intended. That’s what the word “consequence” fucking means!
There are accidents, also of course, and Force Majeure, and even Acts of God, but those aren’t unintended either. All of them were intended.
The arguments (and dismissive side-stepping, excuses and misdirection) are all about who did the intending.
Let’s give God and random accident a temporary free pass, for the sake of this discussion at the moment, and concentrate on point #last. SOMEBODY intended the bad stuff to happen, and were happy when it did.
The collapse of civilization, for example, or the wars that keep popping up all around poor old innocent Israel, and the Epstein Files.
Just because things went South without blame being appropriately assigned is no valid reason for not having a look at who MIGHT have intended them to go bad. Cui Bono, ya know?
Did Trump and his war monger friends benefit from the slaughter of innocent children in Gaza? How about in Ukraine, where I hear one can buy child meat, sex slaves and adrenochrome on the blackest of markets if one knows where to ask and has legally protected connections. Huge profits in the oil markets are another miraculous windfall for some even more than they were an “unintended consequence” for everyone else.
Those might be good places to start looking for unintended consequences, if finding true answers is one’s intention.
@DrD
How bad does Trump have to behave before you admit to yourself that he is a bad guy?
Rape and murder little girls?
Invite adversaries to a peace negotiation and murder them when they enter the room?
Get elected by promising peace to a war weary nation, and then deliberately launching the most destructive war in human history that will not only finish off the slow death of the people who voted him in, but kill billions of others in the engineered collapse of advanced civilization?
How about giving himself top billing over Jesus Christ as the Prince of Peace? I can see the monument to himself in my minds eye. A field of smoldering ashes and rotting corpses stretching to the horizon in all directions, and smack in the middle of it all the name TRUMP so enormous that it’s peeling faux-gold paint is visible from space.
If you keep defending his travesties you’re going to end up believing your own bullshit so devoutly that your own little name will appear in fine print somewhere in the credits. It will be in print so small it would take an electron microscope to read it, but at least the name will be spelled in full and not just a three-letter abbreviation: “Doctor Death”. Your mother will be so proud.
Reuters, Bloomberg, CNBC and other outlets have already linked regulators to a broader review of suspicious oil bets placed before previous policy signals tied to the Trump administration’s handling of the Iran conflict.
So far most of the moral outrage has leaned toward the financial aspects of insider trading for massive gains in manipulated markets.
That’s about to shift, because although the motive is to steal money the crime isn’t to make a killing in the market.
It’s actual killing. Dead soldiers. Dead loved ones. Dead schoolgirls, murdered children and tens of thousands of other noncombatant civilians of all ages deliberately shredded into pieces too small to bury.
What’s more important, the blood or the money?
When I call out people like Musk, Trump, Obama, Clinton, Gates, Bezos, Elison, (etc, etc. etc.) as stupid I am not insulting them. I am describing them, and you might be surprised to see so many “famous geniuses” to be included on the list, like Henry Ford, Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger or even Abraham Lincoln. Good liars are not the same as good thinkers.
They actually are quite stupid, in the classical, grade school sense of the word. As in “Duh!”
The three big clues (proof, actually) are:
1) Other people (some of them quite smart) do literally everything for them. They have no personally made, D.I.Y. style, products or tangible skills of their own. They delegate like crazy, but they do not do.
2) The big ideas which they DO modestly hold out as evidence of their superiority are UNIFORMLY just bat-shit crazy, patently absurd or suicidally impossible. Such bright ideas that only the best of people are capable of comprehending include things like: making secrets and criminality legally mandatory, reducing human population, leaving the only place that can support human life, kill the people who are keeping everyone else alive, legalize murder and theft, criminalize truth, help and productivity.
3) They spend most of their time and money on manufacturing and maintaining the public image, largely because it is so hollow of real substance, and tend to be extremely sensitive about being stupid (and for the same reason.The point I’m making here is not that these people are undeserving of praise, and power, and highly deserving of ridicule and punishment (although both of those things are more or less the true).
The point is that these morons are the LAST people that any reasonably intelligent decent person should ever want to admire, emulate, or obey because THAT level of stupid will getcha kilt, or worse.
If I had known that doing nothing was this entertaining I would have stopped doing anything long ago.
@JohnDay
all major powers have vital interests fighting it. China wants to grow and become the world’s largest economy. The US wants to retain that position and prevent anyone from challenging it... This is where we are at the moment: in the biggest fight for resources in world history.
Haunting echoes of that old website that some of the Oldtimers here on TAE might well remember, called “The Oil Drum”. Many a ‘peak oil’ doomster of yesteryear is muttering, “We told you so 20 years ago!”
How well one frames, formulates and presents the question is an excellent predictor of success in getting good understandable answers.
(this must be one-liners day)
The only measure of smart is ones track record on how good one is at knowing where to go for help to cure ones own stupidity. I don’t personally have very many answers, but I’m getting slightly better at knowing where to go ask for more.
I think I just came up with a new old proverb:
Don’t get tangled in the weeds at the side of the path.dbs – a compromise?
extremely naive social animals who easily fall prey to uninformed peer group pressureThe world can always use another good diplomat. Consider the job yours.
How many wives and children has that guy gone through? And THAT inability to form a lasting partnership with even ONE other human being, is some kind of evidence of Elon Musk being smart? How dumb is that?
And Musk is going to be one of the top guys to run the whole world? How smart is that?
What Elon Musk is very good at is distributing tasks and delegating workload. By devoting himself to it nearly full time it is literally all that he can do to delegate and distribute all of the tasks for all of the things that Elon Musk will NEVER be skilled (or smart) enough to do on his own. He even hires out his thinking, which shows because it’s really shitty thinking.
Elon Musk is a great example. Everyone calls him smart. No, he isn’t. He has certain impressively gifted skills, to be sure, but smart isn’t one of them. That’s why he spends so much time and attention (and money!) on creating the public image of eccentric geniushood.
His idea of being smart is to consume all of Earth’s available resources on the task of transporting the spark of humanity off of the only planet in the known universe that is capable of literally supporting us as living organisms. To go anywhere else (where the planet was not designed to help us live, would be an absolute death sentence for everyone who went.
That’s just not very smart no matter how your parse it.
Did you ever notice that the whenever there’s some big announcement that the End Of The World As We Know It is going to be tomorrow afternoon that so many people rush out to buy extra toilet paper?
Their attention apparently focused on the potential inconvenience and discomfort of not being able to wipe their butt after they pooped, instead of the food that they would need in order to make poop in the first place (and thus need to clean up afterwards.)
If you don’t have food you won’t need toilet paper.
Three days food and water in the pantry, and six months supply of toilet paper in the bathroom closet.
Silly rabbit.
It tells you something way too seriously profound about the ability of the “average” human being to think. We humans (absolutely all of us, with no exceptions) are really really stupid.
I mean REALLY stupid. Even the “best and brightest” of us can’t do practically anything for ourselves, except maybe choose what we think is best for ourselves.
We could not pry a rock out of the mud with a stick unless someone gave us the stick, and the rock and the mud in the first place so that we would have something to shove around and play with. We could not make so much as a molecule of any one of those things if it were left up to us! Not one atom! We can only choose which ones to use to get what we want.
@DrD
“The closer this Iran war comes to a favorable resolution, the more garishly negative the puling Lefty-left gets, wishing fervently for the enemy to prevail. Why? Because the Lefty-left is also an enemy of our country. They want the operation to fail so they can reclaim power and resume wrecking the USA” –Kunstler
You do understand, don’t you DrD, that the “favorable resolution” that the Kunt speaks of is literal death to all of his real and imagined enemies. And he’s got a whole bunch of those you betcha.
You read and repeat what he says, but you still do not comprehend what he says. I cannot yet quite bring myself to believe that you are as deranged as that Zionist POS Jimmy the kid killer Kuntsler, but keep talking. I’m starting to get there.
When JHK uses the term “our country” he is not thinking of the country that YOU are thinking of, but keep thinking it. You’re starting to get there.
Every other word is an emotional, pejorative word. That means he has no facts, and the facts he has are now in question. What is the “Mass confusion”? Go ahead. The U.S. has no idea which ships are ours or who is in command of the US Navy? THAT would be mass confusion. This is just “We are implementing new policy in a very boring, methodical way.”
Or the emotional language MIGHT be the expression of frustration at how S L O W and ignorant the United States is at recognizing and handling the mass chaos in international sea-borne trade that it is generating and fanning into uproarious conflagration with it’s “boring new policy” (which policy is basically the “wing-it-on-the-fly” policy of writing ever-shifting new “rules” the way Calvin and Hobbs do in their “Calvin Ball” games.
As for 17 ships managing a blockade of tens of thousands of square miles of open sea to control the movement of thousands of ships with hundreds of different owners, flags, contractual arrangements and arrangements agreed upon by guarantors and partners who happen to be ATMOMIC ARMED MAJOR WORLD POWERS who also have a dog in the fight.
Get a grip on your brain cells, Doc. 17 ships or 17 HUNDRED ships could not that task against a well armed high tech adversary, because this is not the Barbary Coast in 1801 and Trump ain’t no Thomas Jefferson. The United States Armed Forces entire cannot blockade an entire fucking OCEAN.
Besides, it’s not the ships OR missiles causing the problem now. It’s the ability to guarantee safe passage….. and for the foreseeable future THAT is being done rather effectively by Iran and friends. Get used to it.
Max seems to have the receipts. https://youtu.be/NHOGJ8MCJt4?si=UdAeJx64HI7uqpXq
One of the things that I bet would happen is that when the craziest ones starting saying stuff like how they were going to annihilate with bombs an entire civilization, kill all of the subhuman “Amalek” animals called Palestinians, or reduce by any means the world’s human population by 90%, then most people would not even believe that those criminally insane lunatics meant what they said.
So I just gotta wonder how many people are not freely communicating what is truly on their minds because they are stopping themselves due to various impediments like fear of repercussions?
I bet life would get VERY interesting if everyone just popped off all of a sudden and plainly said what they really thought.
